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The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in Manhattan on a mission. In the face of rampant scepticism, she triumphantly reinvents a failing magazine.

Hardback edition of CRAIG CABELL's biography of top International Horror fiction writer JAMES HERBERT. On the fly-leaf an excellent autograph by James plus Craig Cabell. Also there is a note to INGRID PITT, Horror & action actress INGRID PITT.

A scarce and unusual edition of Yasunari Kawabata’s classic acceptance speech for his 1968 Nobel Prize for literature. Very scarce in this format. Book in good condition with expected general wear/discolouring for age, light creasing in places, previous owners gift inscription on first free page and brief annotation on page 37 (otherwise pages and text clean).

This work combines a facsimile reprint of Julian Trevelyan's memoirs of his life with an illustrated study by Nicholas Usherwood of his work during this period. Banana Twist Records are squinky records!

Mr Nonsense - A Life of Edward Lear. Hardback book with dustjacket approx. 8" x 5", 126 pages illustrated with drawings by Edward Lear. Emery Kelen. Macdonald and Janes Publishers Ltd., 1st, 1974. Book and covers in very good condition with no inscriptions.

There is no doubt that Ransome’s spiritual home was the ‘Lake in the North’ where he set five of his twelve iconic books for children. There he wrote Swallows and Amazons and three of its sequels. He was never happier than when writing while afloat in his favourite little yacht, the Nancy Blackett, immortalized as Goblin in We Didn’t Mean to Go To Sea.

Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd (1991) Reprint of the 1976 First Edition. Bound in the original publisher's cloth, titled in gilt to the spine in Gilt, tiny bump to the upper corner. Prev owner's plate to the front pastedown, would otherwise be near fine, clean and tight otherwise.

THE COLOUR LIBRARY BOOK OF GREAT BRITISH WRITERS. The binding is tight and secure with no loose or detached pages.The inside of the book is unmarked and the contents remain in excellent, near-new condition throughout.

THE BEAST AND THE MONK. A LIFE OF CHARLES KINGSLEY. SUSAN CHITTY. INTERNAL CONDITION: Near-pristine - no inscriptions, apart from the author's signature on the title page - light browning to page edges.

DAVID EDWARDS has written an extremely readable book which ranges over all the poetry and prose and which relates the literature to what is known or probable about the life. He takes twentieth-century research and criticism into careful account but aims to provide more than a detailed examination of a limited part of the subject.

Sir Thomas Browne Joan Bennett 1962 Cambridge University Press Biography. Sir Thomas Browne (19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric.

Yet, lover of gossip and brilliant talker (Pritchett described him as one of the best talkers in England), he needed solitude just as much. His life was transformed by the Spanish Civil War and his marriage to American poetess Gamel Woolsey.

AS I KNEW HER. Hardback book with dustjacket published by Hutchinson, 1st, 2003. line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. IRIS MURDOCH. A N WILSON. 275 pages illustrated with b&w photos. Book and covers in very good condition with no inscriptions.

Little Wilson And Big God by Anthony Burgess, published by William Heinemann 1987. The book is in good condition. The dust jacket has not been price clipped and has small edge tears, minor creases, some edge wear and some crinkling as shown.

Rushdie used "Joseph Anton" as a pseudonym while in hiding following the fatwa that had been issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual and political leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the midst of criticism by some Muslims and a widespread controversy over Rushdie's novel.

NICE USED 293 PAGED HARDBACK BOOK IN ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. TITLED REGGIE A PORTRAIT OF REGINALD TURNER. BY STANLEY WEINTRAUB. PUBLISHED BY GEORGE BRAZILLER IN 1965. THE BOOK HAS OLIVE COVERS WITH BLACK TITLES ON SPINE.

Winding the Clock: O'Rahilly and the 1916 Rising by Aodogan O'Rahilly. Used in Very Good condition. Hardcover 1991 edition with Dust Jacket. In Maroon boards that are good and tight. Pages have yellowed with age.

Poets of The 90's. A biographical Anthology. By Derek Stanford. Published by John Baker 1965 First Edition. This book is in very good condition, no tears or creases and internally clean and tidy throughout.

His literary output was enormous, with more than fifty books published on a wide range of subjects. Much of his work appears dated now, but in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson Conan Doyle created two of the most memorable and loved characters of all time; and Brigadier Gerard, that outrageously vain but endearing hussar in Napoleon's army, is a splendidly drawn comic character.

Published by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd (2012) First Lincoln Edition. Hardcover in the original black boards, titled in white to the spine. Some wear to the corners and spine ends, else clean and tight.

This is a fine writer at work on a favorite and beloved subject with his own memories to draw on in addition to a good deal of previously unpublished material. It is a book of tremendous scope a truly definitive biography and the spirit of GBS comes bursting through to quicken and delight.

Actual pages in VGC. Dust jacket creased down the middle (at the front) and has a small tear near the top of the spine. The Enid Blyton Story. Hardback edition with dust cover. By Bob Mullan. Published 1987.

ELIZABETH SMART - NECESSARY SECRETS - THE JOURNALS OF ELIZABETH SMART EDITED BY ALICE VAN WART. ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS - THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE JOURNALS OF ELIZABETH SMART EDITED BY ALICE VAN WART.

J.T.CHRISTIE A GREAT TEACHER. This first edition hardback was published in 1984 by The Plume Press,211 pages,price unclipped.A Selection of his own writings with introductory memoirs,Condition is very good indeed with the dustjacket clean and complete with a mere trace of wear.The boards are clean and there is an inscription on the endpaper.The pages are crisp,clean and unmarked.A very clean first edition.No Reserve.

BOOK SIZE IS APPROX 24cm x 16cm, 370 PAGES. CONDITION: THE DUST JACKET HAS EDGE TEARS, SMALL LOSSES, AND SIGNIFICANT AGE-TONING. THE TEXT BLOCK EDGES HAVE AGE-TONING. THE PAGES ARE IN GOOD CLEAN CONDITION AND THE BINDING IS TIGHT.

He was mourned by millions of fans who had laughed and cried at his delightful stories of life as a vet in Yorkshire. Yet Herriot, whose real name was Alf Wright, did not have his first book published until he was fifty-three.

Kate's Daughter gets to the heart of the Catherine Cookson story. Meanwhile Catherine's written records, letters and diaries, only recently lodged in the Catherine Cookson archive at the University of Boston, were made available.

Item: PAPA HEMINGWAY by A.E. HOTCHNER. 1st Edition First Printing. 299 page hardback book (22cm x 14.5cm - 529gram) published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1966. This fascinating biography paints an important and unusually vivid memoir of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest writers of our time by this author, during the last fourteen years of his life, by his very close friend A. E. Hotchner.